New video available: Human rights or conservation? A new video has been made available by IWMC-World Conservation Trust entitled Human rights or conservation? The short video addresses the next meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in September this year in Lima, Peru, where a crucial Resolution on Food Security will be tabled. In the …
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Towards IWC68 and CITES CoP19 Introduction The IWC will, for example, discuss the establishment of a South Atlantic Whale Sanctuary, marine pollution or the lifting of the moratorium on commercial whaling (for the full agenda, please click here). CITES, on the other hand, will deal with 52 proposals to amend its Appendices (meaning, it might …
Introduction Recently the European Market Observatory for Fisheries and Aquaculture Products (EUMOFA) hosted a webinar concerning the environmental footprint of aquaculture and its future development. Having visited aquaculture farms in Norway, Russia and the Faroe Islands myself, I have always been very sceptical concerning its impact on animals and the environment. On the one hand, …
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